I am trying to run a game that I bought on itch.io but I get no licenses error. Even if try to run it directly in desktop mode, steam just interrupts the game and displays no licenses error. Any ideas?

    • falseprophet@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      52·
      2 天前

      I am not sure the game has DRM it seems more like Steam recognizes it as game from it own store and thinks there should be a license for it. I could be wrong though.

      • Kairos@lemmy.today
        24·
        2 天前

        That doesn’t happen automatically. It’s actually very illegal for it to do that. The publisher bundled a steam lib that talks to Steam.

  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    23·
    2 天前

    I think the problem is that the itch release is literally the same build as steam’s, but the dev didn’t do a very good job of neutering the “ask a steam api” bit. They accept “lol what is steam?” as a valid answer, but not “steam is responding, and says you own 0 copies of game 8675309”.

    First, check protondb. Then put a comment up on itch.io. Is anybody else complaining? Is anybody else commenting on the game at all?

    Add the game to heroic and let heroic add it to Steam? I recommend always using either the latest proton-ge, or the latest of the previous proton-ge (9.27).

    Or remove the steamapi library from the game’s folder. Or add a steam_appid.txt.

    Or a last resort would be Goldberg.